Comments on: 6 Tips for Small Software Vendors to Understand Enterprise Customers http://hackerboss.com/tips-for-small-software-vendors-to-understand-enterprise-customers/ Developing software and managing development teams. Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:15:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: vlaurikahttp://hackerboss.com/tips-for-small-software-vendors-to-understand-enterprise-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-217 vlaurika Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:22:28 +0000 http://hackerboss.com/?p=658#comment-217 <p>> they don’t really know the systems and they won’t change it This is a great observation. This definitely happens in companies, and the effects are amplified in big companies. Keeping the business running is priority number #1 for the IT department. They really think twice before changing anything, especially if they don’t exactly know what the system-wide dependencies are. What depends on the LDAP schema? What breaks if we change it? Nobody knows… "Everything is standardized" refers mostly to the software installed on machines, which is what the paragraph talks about. When I said "everything", I didn’t really mean*everything*. Ahem :)</p> <p><i>This comment was originally posted on <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/softwaredevelopment/comments/99cxf/6_tips_for_small_software_vendors_to_understand/c0bwkhv" rel="nofollow">Reddit</a></i></p> > they don’t really know the systems and they won’t change it This is a great observation. This definitely happens in companies, and the effects are amplified in big companies. Keeping the business running is priority number #1 for the IT department. They really think twice before changing anything, especially if they don’t exactly know what the system-wide dependencies are. What depends on the LDAP schema? What breaks if we change it? Nobody knows… "Everything is standardized" refers mostly to the software installed on machines, which is what the paragraph talks about. When I said "everything", I didn’t really mean*everything*. Ahem :)

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]]> By: Buckwheat469http://hackerboss.com/tips-for-small-software-vendors-to-understand-enterprise-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Buckwheat469 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:43:29 +0000 http://hackerboss.com/?p=658#comment-196 <p>> 3. Everything is standardized This isn’t always true. I work with enterprise AD environments for several large organizations and I’ve never come across one that’s easy to program for. The easiest networks to work with are large school districts which rival enterprise AD systems. These school districts tend to be organized and programmable. The database information can be easily keyed to the OU location. The problem I run into with companies is they don’t really know the systems and they won’t change it no matter how much you tell them it needs to change. You begin to program for exceptions rather than rules.</p> <p><i>This comment was originally posted on <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/softwaredevelopment/comments/99cxf/6_tips_for_small_software_vendors_to_understand/c0bwjm4" rel="nofollow">Reddit</a></i></p> > 3. Everything is standardized This isn’t always true. I work with enterprise AD environments for several large organizations and I’ve never come across one that’s easy to program for. The easiest networks to work with are large school districts which rival enterprise AD systems. These school districts tend to be organized and programmable. The database information can be easily keyed to the OU location. The problem I run into with companies is they don’t really know the systems and they won’t change it no matter how much you tell them it needs to change. You begin to program for exceptions rather than rules.

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